![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Solon converted private revenge into public justice. Religion was separated from the administration of justice for the first time in human history. This system was based on rule of and equality before the law, a redistribution of power through law, and resolution of conflict through a public court system with juries of peers in an adversarial process before the presiding judge. ![]() He instituted changes and established a legal code thate brokered a non-violent social revolution and transformed the passion for vengeance into a justice system. Solon laid the foundation for a democratic system of justice through the first of a series of constitutions that gave birth to democracy. Athens wanted peace and order, and turned to the man who had communicated his vision of social order and the need for justice through his poetry. Poet, philosopher, soldier, merchant, practical economist as well as social critic he came to power in revolutionary times with a mission to put an end to the cycles of retaliatory violence that had plagued Greece for centuries. Justice as we know it dates back to sixth century B.C. Our western legal system evolved from the need to tame wild justice that was tearing apart early civilization. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed out for the first wrong, it doth offend the law,īut the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office." A History of Justice: Origins of Law and PsychiatryĪ history of justice: origins of law and psychiatry Walter A. ![]()
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